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Monday, November 09, 2009

LEED Certification Challenges and Approaches: Chapter 10 of Greening Existing Buildings

This chapter addresses the specific issues associated with managing successful certification projects, including creating the project team, engaging with the commissioning and certification process, conducting team meetings, tracking team progress, and justifying economic costs and benefits. Leading consultants provide a number of tips for getting EBOM projects done on an accelerated timetable. The company or organization needs to change purchasing and operating practices, and change its specifications for remodels and renovations. Approaches also differ between government and private sector projects.

This is an excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s book, Greening Existing Buildings

To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.

Click here to order this book from Amazon.com.

Posted by Sky on 11/09/2009 at 12:50 AM

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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Green Building Books Signings Next Week at Greenbuild in Phoenix

I’ll be signing Greening Existing Buildings at the McGraw-Hill booth at 10 am on Wednesday November 11th, on the show floor. On Thursday, November 12th, at 1:00 pm at the Conference Bookstore, I’ll be signing Green Building Trends: Europe, my new book for Island Press. Hope to see you there!

Posted by Jerry on 11/05/2009 at 05:36 PM

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Wednesday, November 04, 2009

New Water Technologies for Green Buildings

The Mechanical Contracting Education & Research Foundation (MCERF), the foundation of the Mechanical Contractors Association of America, Inc. (MCAA) in late October released a new research study. “Water-Efficiency Technologies for Mechanical Contractors: New Business Opportunities,” prepared by Jerry Yudelson of Yudelson Associates, explains how anticipated water shortages could result in unprecedented opportunities for mechanical contractors, technology suppliers and engineering consultants to supply water conservation technologies. The report anticipates that public policy will soon focus on water conservation, water efficiency technologies and onsite water treatment and reuse. The report reviews and profiles many opportunities that this will present for mechanical contractors—from water efficiency audits to rainwater harvesting, gray water reuse, high-efficiency fixtures and cooling tower water conservation.

Posted by Jerry on 11/04/2009 at 11:20 AM

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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Markets for Greening Existing Buildings: Chapter 3 of Greening Existing Buildings

RREEF Research reported in February 2009 its expectation that “major real estate markets—the markets where institutional investors focus their attention—will be pushed even faster to the tipping point where green building becomes the market standard.” The research predicts that older, less-efficient conventional buildings will actually have their market value discounted in the years ahead. Even with the continuing global economic recession, government policies will continue to accelerate the push toward greener buildings, as will tenant demand, especially from corporate real estate executives. There is also “no pronounced indication that major institutions are pulling back from their greening commitments” as investors. In this context, greening existing buildings, especially upgrading energy efficiency, can be seen as a “defensive strategy,” since these less-efficient properties risk “market decay” in the form of lower rents and higher vacancies, “as tenants increasingly migrate to more modern, greener buildings.”

This is an excerpt from Jerry Yudelson’s book, Greening Existing Buildings

To read the entire chapter, click here to download the PDF version.

Click here to order this book from Amazon.com.

Posted by Sky on 11/01/2009 at 09:46 AM

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